M. Garstein, Courtney P. Benjamin, L. Lavine, Rebecca Craft, A. Wharton
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摘要
导师的存在有助于减少女性面临的障碍,提供必要的技能和信心,使她们能够成功地在学术界,特别是在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)相关领域的不同职业阶段中取得成功。例如,有人注意到,指导可以增加女性在工程领域的坚持,可能还有其他STEM领域(Frehill et al., 2006)。华盛顿州立大学(WSU)在国家科学基金会推进机构转型奖下开始了一个外部导师计划,由于它的成功,这个计划现在在内部得到了维持。WSU外部导师计划评估结果(N=40)表明,参与STEM学科的女性教师对外部导师计划的总体满意度很高,报告说她们的期望得到了满足,并在向同事推荐参与方面表达了共识。除了一名参与者外,所有参与者都在参加外部导师计划后产生了外部资助提案。深入的后续访谈揭示了额外的好处,主要落在以下领域:验证、协作、访问和 网络,以及“涓滴效应” ——更广泛地赋予学生和参与者所在部门的好处。我们的结论是,外部导师计划已经成为旨在加强STEM领域女性教师的保留和发展的机构战略武器库中的重要工具。
External Mentor Program: A Pathway to Career Advancement for Women in STEM
Mentor availability helps reduce the barriers facing women, providing skills and confidence necessary to successfully navigate different career stages in academia, and especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) related areas. For example, mentoring was noted to increase women’s persistence in engineering, and presumably other STEM fields (Frehill et al., 2006). Washington State University (WSU) began an External Mentor Program under the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award, and because of its success, this program is now sustained internally. Results of the WSU External Mentor Program evaluation (N=40) indicate that participating women faculty in STEM disciplines endorsed high levels of overall satisfaction with the External Mentor Program, reported that their expectations were met, and expressed consensus regarding recommending participation to their colleagues. All but one participant generated external grant proposals after taking part in the External Mentor Program. In-depth follow-up interviews revealed additional benefits, principally falling within the following domains: validation, collaboration, access and networking, and a “trickle down” effect - benefits conferred to the students, and participants’ departments more broadly. We conclude that External Mentor programming has emerged as an important tool in the arsenal of institutional strategies aimed at enhancing retention and advancement of women faculty in STEM fields.